‘A Harbinger of Things to Come’: Farmers in Australia Struggle With Its Hottest Drought Ever

Adam Ferguson for TIMEGus Bullen drags hay that will feed sheep on Dunmore Property near Pilliga in December.

When the wind blows, Krystal Bullen’s home can vanish in an instant. It sits on 4,000 acres of dust outside Pilliga, a New South Wales town nearly 300 miles northwest of Sydney, and a good gust will engulf her homestead in a brown haze.